In the last month there have been almost 8,000 visits to iDigHardware...about a 30% increase over the same period last year.  That's so exciting!!  I was helping out with a class today (Preparing for a Fire Door Inspection taught by Jeff Tock of Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies), and several people mentioned that they were frequent visitors to the site.  One told me that I "got him hooked on Doors & Hardware magazine" (when was the last time you heard that?).  During the class I received an email that cracked me up, which read in part:

Is it my imagination or do most architects wait until the last possible moment to ask for help with their hardware specifications?  Why is that??  My theory is that most of them hate hardware so much that they can't bear to look at it or think about it until it's almost too late.  I feel the same way about my taxes.  Nope, I haven't done them yet.  I wonder if H&R Block will take good care of me when I call on April 14th.

...Well, one of my most embarrassing professional moments, anyway.

It’s official – I have a new job (woohoo!).  For the last 3 years while I’ve been getting to know all of you and putting as much code/application information on this site as possible, I have also been managing our specification team for New England.  At times it has been a struggle to do both, hence the late-night blog posts.